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Great topic hu?! This is probably the one thing that keeps America fat! Hubby and I were just talking about the topic this weekend saying that we know a lot of families who would probably lose 10 pounds by not eating out so much. It's just so easy to just go out to eat isn't it?!
I'm huge on saving money! Each week on my main blog, The Mami Blog, I plan our weeks menu and I also do weekly match-ups for our local grocery store. I HATE PAYING RETAIL! Wether it's food, groceries, clothing, housewares, etc. Anywho, so if we do go out to eat, usually hubby's decision, I grab my coupon binder and give suggestions for places that I have a coupon for. But sometimes it is only for a FREE Appetizer or FREE Dessert (not the best coupons), lol But we do like to try new places and it's hard because you don't know how they cook their food and if it will fit into your "diet."
Here are some tips that I use when we eat out
- Try not to!
- Avoid fast food!
- Don't do buffet
- Ask for your food to be steamed
- Drink water!
- Share a plate
- Avoid pasta dishes
- No appitizer
- Add a salad
- Eat Fruit
It was my mom's birthday this past weekend and everyone got a soda or a mixed beverage... NOT ME! I got some nice cold WATER!
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Postpartum (3rd Baby, August 2012): 172
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Hyperloop: Jumping on board the Elon Musk tubewagon
That's one small all-nighter for some men, one giant whoosh for mankind.
Apparently, Elon Musk and a few of the fellas spent Sunday night firming up plans for a $6-billion high-speed transportation system called the Hyperloop, complete with futuristic cars propelled in futuristic tubes by futuristic means (that only physicists understand) to get people from L.A. to S.F. in 30 minutes at speeds approaching 800 mph. Oh yeah, and all that for about $20 each.
I wonder if they ordered pizza.
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Me? I spent my Sunday night watching the Dodgers. Although I did think about some other stuff, none of which seems important now, not with Musk out there reinventing space travel (SpaceX), car travel (Tesla) and now, apparently, rail (tube?) travel.
Forget fluoridation. We should put whatever Musk is drinking into our water.
As for Hyperloop, at first blush it strikes me like those old Popular Science covers from 50 years ago. You know, the ones with the flying cars or the levitating trains or the space planes, all of which we would be enjoying by the year 1999.
Except, of course, we aren't. We're still driving cars with engines that run on gas and poke along on concrete roads filled with similar vehicles. Or we're taking airplanes, which are bigger and faster now, sure, but are also filled with surly flight attendants serving food you have to buy, and carrying bags you have to pay extra for. And don't even get me started on Amtrak. (Somewhere, Leland Stanford is turning over in his grave.)
Or, as I wrote Monday, we're going to build a "bullet train," if we get around to it, which doesn't look likely. (Although my colleague Jon Healey is betting on it over Hyperloop.)
So if Elon Musk says we can stuff 28 people at a time into the equivalent of a 450-mile pneumatic tube and whoosh them across the Golden State at the speed of sound, right above the cows and the cars of the 5 Freeway -- all for the price of four Happy Meals -- well, to paraphrase the immortal George W. Bush, I say "bring it on!"
But I'm not the only one jumping on the tubewagon. The Times reached a real physicist, Dr. Michio Kaku of City College of New York, to sound him out on the feasibility of Musk's idea. His take:
"The overall design does not obviously violate any basic principles [of physics]. It might work," he said. "However, the key is to create small-scale models, place them in vacuum chambers, and see if the idea works and is economical. ... Things which work well on the drawing board at low velocities are notorious for failing at extremely high velocities."
And they say professors are all ivory-tower types.
However, I too have a little experience with equipment that looked good on the drawing board but was a little, uh, problematic in real life.
I remember when we had pneumatic tubes here at The Times. We used them to whoosh cylinders full of important documents from the newsroom on the third floor to the composing room on the second floor. Quite often, they got stuck. People got paid to fish the cylinders out. One time, a fellow newsman tried to do the job himself. He got his arm stuck in the tube. So the people who got paid to fish the cylinders out had to fish him out too.
It's just one more great thing about journalism that the Internet killed.
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Bar Eats: Sheffield's Something of a Three-Headed Monster
Two things I often find myself pettily kvetching about with bars are either A) an utter lack of identity or B) an identity crisis. In the case of A, this is often a result of the place simply being too new, too shiny. Bars don't come character-ready with those deep stains and proud odors.
In the case of B, a lot of places try to cover too many bases. We're totally a heavy metal kind of place, dude (unless any sporting event under the sun is available on all of our 96 TVs, with surround sound). Or...we're more an upscale gastropub, but with $5 pitchers of Coors Light and waitstaff dressed to make Hooters girls blush. It's confusing, right?
So given all this, there's no logical reason Sheffield's should work for me, as it clearly has a lot going on. But it somehow works; it's like multiple personality order.
The self-sufficient front room, with the main bar, tables, blaring sports and/or music, lots of light, and some Wrigleyville spillover. The first time I came here, I thought this was the entire place.
But venture back, under the Beer School neon to the speakeasy-ish back room, and you'll find people huddled around candle-lit tables or the fireplace. This is also the home of the Beer School bar and the geeked-out Vintage Bottle Program fridge. Totally different vibe; personality number two. And the third is that of a legitimate, smoked barbecue joint, smack dab in the middle of Lakeview.
The Combo Platter ($22) is a great place to dive right in. Your choice of two meats (brisket and pork, please), served with corn bread, slaw, and hand-cut fries.
The pulled pork is bolstered with fourteen hours worth of smoky love. It is pulled to order, and it is just beautiful. A deep pink smoke ring is evident, and the meat is tender, not stringy. Boasting a great bark, it is moist and delicious.
The beef brisket is smoked for eighteen hours over hickory and apple wood, and also wears a great bark. It is lean, not as fall-apart as Smoque, but I'm okay with a little chew to my brisket. Sliced thin, that great smoke flavor comes through in every bite, as does a bit of heat from the rub.
The hand-cut fries were salty and expertly fried, and the corn bread was fluffy with just a hint of jalapeno to it. Sheffield's also makes its own sauces; while the cinnamon apple-tasting Carolina vinegar was a big whiff, the Texas Heat was right on point as a spicy tomato-based red sauce.
The Buffalo chicken rolls ($8) came highly recommended, and for good reason. Spicy smoked chicken, buffalo sauce, cheddar and jack cheeses fried in wontons. The chicken is smoked and has a nice heat of its own. The wontons are crispy on the outside, chewy on the inside. They are fantastic just the way they are, but the Buffalo sauce and/or blue cheese make for tempting accompaniments.
The chili ($6) is a meaty quadfecta (that's a word, right?) of brisket, pork, chorizo, and bacon. The chiles won't dampen many collars, but they are present and accounted for. The beans were actually a little overdone, but it's a big, rich winter warmup.
The armadillo eggs ($6) were like my mail-order bride; I just knew they were going to be awesome once we got to know one another. They are pickled jalapeños filled with brisket, pepper jack, and Texas Heat barbecue sauce, covered in panko, fried, and served with barbecue ranch. What could possibly go wrong here? Well, too much breading, and they just kept falling apart.The breading overshadowed not only the brisket, but also the jalapeños; the ranch helped the panko medicine go down.
Yes, Sheffield's is essentially a three-headed monster of a bar. But with its serious 'que and Beer School events like Huge Ass Beer Night, it's more of a kindly monster, one who would save your seat on the leafy patio or give a lonesome child a pulled pork slider for company. Does it make sense? Nope. But neither do David Lynch movies. And sometimes different is good.
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[Note: This is a re-post of my review from the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival. Silver Linings Playbook opens today in limited release.]
We have acceptable levels of "crazy" in our society, and that in itself is kind of crazy. Some psychosis is cute and charming, while other acts of craziness demand hospitalization and medication. This distinction is obviously based on harm, both to others and to oneself. But there's a "healthy" level of crazy, and the search for that level is what makes David O. Russell's Silver Linings Playbook sharply comic and surprisingly sweet. O. Russell has once again returned to study the dysfunctional family, and while Silver Linings Playbook is softer than Flirting with Disaster and even The Fighter, it still has enough of an edge to deliver some great jokes, and strong performances to make the emotions ring true.
Pat Solitano (Bradley Cooper) has been released from a mental hospitalized, and into the care of his parents Dolores (Jacki Weaver) and Pat Sr. (Robert De Niro). Pat Jr. was sentenced to eight months of hospitalization after he walked in on his wife Nikki (Brea Bee) having sex with another man, and then Pat proceeded to beat the man half to death. Even though Pat has been released from the hospital, he still labors under the delusion he can get Nikki back. However, his plan hits a snag when he meets kindred crazy person Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence), who is trying to cope with her husband's death by sleeping with every guy that moves. Despite their mental issues, and perhaps because of them, Pat and Tiffany begin to repair the other's broken heart and mind.
The film's humor is the essential bulwark against any schmaltziness. The unfiltered dialogue between the characters is terrific, and it feeds the chemistry between Cooper and Lawrence. The two can go through banter, soul-bearing, misunderstanding, and reconciliation all in the span of a single scene, and the transitions never feel awkward. The entire cast is solid (although Pat's friend Danny (Chris Tucker) adds absolutely nothing to the story), but the standout is easily Lawrence. There's just so much sadness and resentment in the character, but through Lawrence we see how badly Tiffany wants to heal. She's not trying to go sane; she's just trying to not hurt anymore.
Crazy isn't all bad according to Silver Linings. Although the film seems to have an odd anti-medication bent (the characters take meds reluctantly, and see them as a way to make other people feel better but not themselves), it does show that it's not bad being crazy if you have someone along for the ride. Of course, the film rarely gets into dangerous-crazy. Pat has a bit of a meltdown and starts breaking things when he hears a particular song, but other than that he's just socially awkward and in a deep state of denial. Tiffany has a lot of meaningless sex, but she's not physically harming anyone. At worst, their craziness is frowned upon.
But then the movie seizes upon the mass psychosis Americans not only find acceptable, but wholehearted embrace: sports fanaticism. Pat and his family are hardcore Philadelphia Eagles fans, and Pat Sr. is trying to raise money for a restaurant by gambling on sports. Pat Sr. is incredibly superstitious, and believes the Eagles will win if he's watching the game with his son. It's madness. It's madness to believe anything any single fan could do would change the outcome of the game. But it's cute, and mainstream society probably doesn't think Pat Sr. needs therapy. So how can we single out Pat and Tiffany as pariahs when their trespasses are equally benign?
As his follow-up to The Fighter, David O. Russell has delivered another crowd-pleaser that won't challenge the audience, but will leave them happy and entertained without having their intelligence insulted. I hope that O. Russell will eventually return to material that's a little more daring like I Heart Huckabees, but there's nothing crazy about making a sweet movie with a little bit of bite. And even if it was crazy, that would be okay.
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Danks to start Thursday against Rangers in his home state; pitcher Vazquez may play right field; Podsednik update; Guillen on Seattle.
The season has been a source of much frustration for White Sox players, but few more so than designated hitter Jim Thome, who has yet to realize his goals of a World Series ring and a 500th career home run here.
"It is frustrating, because the bottom line is you play to win," said Thome, who remained stuck on 493 homers after back spasms sidelined him for a third consecutive game against the Boston Red Sox on Saturday afternoon. "I've said that all year long. Ultimately, we work hard throughout the winter and spring training to give ourselves an opportunity to play in the postseason."
Thome was confident that with a few personnel changes and healthy breaks, the team would return to form next season.
"This team won the World Series two years ago," Thome said. "There's not that much difference now. Sometimes things happen and you can't pinpoint why, but injuries and certain things like that do happen.
"The organization kept Mark (Buehrle) and Jermaine (Dye) and a lot of our core players intact. We've got good pitching. It's just a matter of jelling and getting into a groove and not having injuries. Sometimes we tend to forget that any time you lose guys like myself, Joe (Crede), Darin (Erstad) and Scott (Podsednik), those are significant pieces of the puzzle."
Thome responded to treatment and could return to the lineup for the series finale this afternoon.
"I felt good when I woke up today, which is great," said Thome, who believed damp weather contributed to the problem. "I'll be ready to go when they call on me."
Danks much
The next start for John Danks is scheduled for Thursday night, a move that will allow for five days of rest between starts and the chance to pitch against the Rangers in Texas, his home state.
Danks was drafted by the Rangers in Round 1 of the 2003 draft before he left as part of the Brandon McCarthy trade in December.
"John wants that (assignment), but that's not why I'll do it," pitching coach Don Cooper said. "We haven't shielded this kid in any way, shape or form. He hasn't done good recently, but I haven't forgotten all the good things that he did early in the season."
Danks was ahead of schedule before he hit the rookie wall in recent weeks. In 24 starts, the left-hander is 6-12 with a 5.51 ERA.
"John gave us more than we expected early in the season," said Cooper, who ruled out a move to the bullpen or a shutdown for the remainder of the season. "Now he has given us what we expected of a rookie."
Fifth dimension
With Podsednik out of action yet again, pitcher Javier Vazquez will serve as the fifth outfielder on the roster.
"(Coach) Joey (Cora) told Vazquez that if we needed somebody in an emergency, he might play right field," Guillen said. "That's the only place that I can play him."
Podsednik hasn't played since Tuesday, when he left the game because of a strained right rib cage muscle. He took part in pregame batting practice, but no date was set for his return.
"Those kinds of injuries don't go away just like that," Guillen said. "I had one before, and it's a tough injury."
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Guillen considered the Seattle Mariners to be the best American League team he has seen recently.
"I like the team in Seattle, because up and down, it's the best team defensively," Guillen said. "They pitch well and their bullpen is pretty good and they hit."
At the same time, Guillen won't rule out the Red Sox, whose 79-51 record is the best in the major leagues.
"Their pitching staff is scary," Guillen said. "We didn't see (Josh) Beckett and (Curt) Schilling at their best (Friday), because they struggled, but I've always liked (their) pitching."
Take it like a man
His team lost the first three games of the series by a combined 35-6 score, but Guillen didn't lose his sense of humor.
"When we played in Boston, they kicked our butts," Guillen said, likely referring to a nationally televised 11-2 loss July 21. "I said to Cooper, 'Talk to the pitcher.' He said, 'Why?' I said, 'Because I want everybody in the nation to know who the darn pitching coach is.' "


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Over the past several years there has been a flurry of new research about the role of diet and health. So what do we really know?
Just last week a study out of Western Europe found that children who were fed three or more burgers a week had a higher risk of asthma. In fact, the increased risk was 40 percent greater compared to those children who only ate hamburgers on an occasional basis. The researchers looked at data from a large trial of over 50,000 children, and the risks were higher in those where lifestyle choices included a variety of "junk" foods. Another recent study found that a diet with significant amounts of margarine actually doubled the risk of allergies and asthma.
So far, the high-fat diet relationship to asthma is interesting, but certainly not proven. It is known, however, that obesity increases asthma risk as well as severity.
Let's take a closer look at "good" and "bad" fats and oils. Is it possible that the Mediterranean diet full of the good Omega-3s may give you a protective effect when it comes to a respiratory condition like asthma?
According to researchers, children who ate nuts at least three times a week were less likely to have asthma symptoms, such as wheezing. It appears that a Mediterranean diet (containing large amounts of beneficial antioxidants) that included apples, tomatoes, and oranges has some extra protective effect against allergy and asthma symptoms as well. One study showed that pregnant women who ate a Mediterranean diet reduced the risk of allergies and asthma in their children.
The take-home message: Make sure your children eat well, especially a diet rich in antioxidant rich foods a la the Mediterranean diet.
Stay tuned for my next blog about other allergy and asthma fighting strategies for you and your family.
Dr. Clifford W. Bassett is an assistant clinical professor of medicine at the Long Island College Hospital and on the faculty of NYU School of Medicine. He is the chair for public education committee of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology and a fellow of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology. No information in this blog is intended as medical advice to any reader or intended to diagnose or treat any medical condition. For more allergy and asthma tips you can visit his website: www.nyc-allergist.com.
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After confirming a new secretary of Labor, Thomas Perez, by a narrower vote, the U.S. Senate on July 18 voted 59-40 to confirm another delayed nominee, Gina McCarthy, as the Environmental Protection Agency administrator.
Her nomination was held up until an agreement was reached this week to avoid the "nuclear option" to prevent filibusters against most presidential nominees. McCarthy, previously assistant administrator for EPA's Office of Air and Radiation, had her nomination approved on a 10-8 party line vote May 16 by the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.
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Brazil, too, has picked up the wind baton, creating the Proeolica support mechanism in July 2001, pledging to bring 1050 MW on-line, with the government acting as guarantor for 15 year power purchase agreements. Designed to help Brazil out of a generation crisis that saw rationing from June 2001 to February 2002, Proeolica is nonetheless only a temporary three-year measure. Even if it meets all its goals, wind in the 2001-2004 period will account for only 3.7% of all new capacity.
Last month, however, the Brazilian parliament approved the Proinfa measure (page 20) as part of the new MP14 power sector legislation, now awaiting presidential ratification. Proinfa builds on Proeolica's foundation and provides an indefinite commitment to wind and other renewables, seeking to install 3300 MW by 2006 and assuring that renewables account for at least 10% of national demand within a 20 year timeframe, and that they meet 15% of the year-on-year increase in power demand. Not only are the goals and scale a quantum leap forward but so are the details: the regulation clearly sets legally established responsibilities, criteria and timeframes that mean that wind has been given the chance to establish its potent future in an expanding and power hungry market.
Mexico, too, appears to have cleared a hurdle this year, with a company not only announcing plans for a respectably sized 30 MW project and a further 60 MW in phase two, but also applying for authorisation for a total of 425 MW (page 21). It is apparently confident of being able to generate, transport and sell that power. Like Brazil, Mexico is a huge economy that needs secure power sources to grow. Also like Brazil, it is facing a large generation deficit with a correspondingly large estimate of necessary investment.
But Latin America's wind sector perhaps needs to take more control of its own destiny before recent developments tempt the wind industry to dust off its atlases and rush to the region. Although wind is now being considered as a first-team player it is still one that seldom touches the political ball -- its progress owes more to what happens elsewhere on the pitch. In Brazil, 2002 is an election year. The MP14, a presidential decree that needed parliamentary approval to become law, was a political hot potato whose passage through Congress was far from certain and in the end owed more to political allegiances than to its actual merits. Moreover, wind was but a minor part of MP14, whose main aim was to establish compensation amounts and mechanisms for those companies hit by the 2001 rationing.
The tale in Mexico is similar. The key legislation enabling renewables to use the transmission facilities of state power company CFE has been in place for some years and the announcement of the first commercial wind project is seen by observers as simply a new outlook from a new government. As power is a hot political topic, with sector reform due to go to Congress soon, what the government says and thinks is inevitably conditioned by political convenience. And even once the reform hurdle is overcome, good intentions can come to nothing, as demonstrated last month when a supreme court ruling overturned a 2001 presidential decree allowing private sector generators to sell output over a previously established 20 MW limit to CFE. Perversely, wind, other renewables, and cogeneration may benefit on the rebound of the ruling, but the situation again shows how wind's fate is decided by a host of players except wind itself.
In need of indigenous generation
But even as a minor player in the big game of Latin American power development, wind has its chances. In Mexico there are those who expect that legislators will lay political differences to one side and approve wind power legislation in a brief truce before getting on with the real business of disagreeing vehemently over sector reform. And in Brazil, the power market is expected to need at least $18.3 billion in the 2001-2004 period, with wind and other renewables pencilled in to contribute $2.7 billion.
It could be far more. As Brazilian power demand keeps on rising, hydro power remains at the mercy of the heavens and thermoelectric expansion at the mercy of a gas supply from Argentina and Bolivia looking ever more shaky. Brazil needs to develop its indigenous generation sources. Among the renewables wind has perhaps the greatest potential for industrial scale use. But first it needs to turn projects into plants and to prove itself in Latin America beyond the rural role it has played to date. Until then, wind will continue to run in the power development slipstream of a turbulent region.


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Donnie Murphy's go-ahead RBI single in the top of the eighth inning lifted the Texas Rangers to a 4-3 win over the Oakland Athletics in the opener of a three-game set.
Kevin Kouzmanoff smacked a leadoff double to right against Sean Doolittle (0-1) and advanced to third on Mitch Moreland's sacrifice bunt to begin the frame. Murphy then slapped a base hit up the middle to plate Kouzmanoff.
Neal Cotts and Alexi Ogando combined to work a scoreless eighth. Cotts picked (1-1) up the final two outs in the seventh to get the win.
Jed Lowrie reached with one out in the ninth against Joakim Soria when Elvis Andrus threw the ball away on a routine play to shortstop. But Soria got Josh Donaldson to pop out to center and Yeonis Cespedes to fly out to left to notch his fourth save of the season.
Shin-Soo Choo belted a leadoff homer, while Prince Fielder and Kouzmanoff each tallied two hits an RBI and a run scored for Texas, which has won six of its last seven games.
Starter Yu Darvish struck out six and allowed three runs on eight hits and four walks over six innings in the no-decision.
Coco Crisp posted three hits, two RBI and a pair of steals for the A's, who had won seven of their last eight games coming in. Brandon Moss cracked a solo homer in defeat.
Choo's leadoff shot to right opened the scoring, but Oakland pushed across three runs in the second to go in front.
Moss began the frame by drilling a blast down the right field line. Josh Reddick worked a one-out walk and Eric Sogard doubled two batters later to put runners on second and third with two away. Crisp's base hit to left brought them home and made it 3-1.
Texas scored a run apiece in the fourth and fifth innings to tie it.
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As of php 5.3, you can use the following code to get the preferred locale of the http agent.
$locale = Locale::acceptFromHttp($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE']);
Worth noting is that gettext honors environment variables while selecting the language to use: http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Locale-Environment-Variables.html
"When a program looks up locale dependent values, it does this according to the following environment variables, in priority order:
LC_xxx, according to selected locale category: LC_CTYPE, LC_NUMERIC, LC_TIME, LC_COLLATE, LC_MONETARY, LC_MESSAGES, ...
Variables whose value is set but is empty are ignored in this lookup. "
In short, if you have non-empty LANGUAGE, you may end up with unexpected localization strings. On the other hand, LANGUAGE can be used to define fallback language if some translation is missing.
I just wanted to say that gettext won't work on WAMP Server 2.4 / 64 Bit, see the thread I posted here:
Title: Gettext doesn't work on WAMP 64 Bits
I haven't tested with only apache 64 Bit, so, I don't know if the issue is related to apache or WAMP. Anyway, to make it work with WAMP, install the 32 Bit version of WAMP and only do this:
define('LOCALE_DIR', '<root_dir_of_your_po_files>'); //ie: C:/wamp/www/your_app/locale
$locale = '<your_locale>'; //ie: es_CO
$domain = 'your_gettext_domain'; //ie: messages
putenv('LC_ALL=' . $locale);
bindtextdomain($domain, LOCALE_DIR);
echo _('<your_string>'; // ie: Hello world
"setlocale" nor setting the LANG, LANGUAGE, and LC_MESSAGES environment variables seems to be necessary under windows. I got it working by setting "LC_ALL" only.
Gettext translations are cached. If you change *.mo files your page may not be translated as expected. Here's simple workaround which does not require restarting webserver (I know, this is just a dirty hack):
function initialize_i18n($locale) {
$domains = glob($locales_root.'/'.$locale.'/LC_MESSAGES/messages-*.mo');
$current = basename($domains[0],'.mo');
$timestamp = preg_replace('{messages-}i','',$current);
to make this work you have to put your locale inside file messages-[unix_time].mo and use this name (without .mo) as your domain to fool caching mechanism (domain names differ)
msgfmt messages.po -o messages-`date +%s`.mo
for me this works fine (although this is not very elegant solution)
The simplest way to by-pass gettext() cache, without restart apache nor change domain.
The fix is incredible simple, first create a dummy link to the locale folder where .mo files stored:
cd locale
ln -s . nocache
Then add one single line before bindtextdomain()
bindtextdomain('domain', './locale/nocache');
bindtextdomain('domain', './locale');
Now the cache is forced to flush every time.
Depending on the implementation of gettext used you might have to call the setlocale(LC_ALL, "") command.
So your example code would be
// Set language to German
putenv ("LANG=de");
// set the locale into the instance of gettext
setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
// Specify location of translation tables
bindtextdomain ("myPHPApp", "./locale");
// Choose domain
textdomain ("myPHPApp");
// Print a test message
print (gettext ("Welcome to My PHP Application"));
NOTE: If setlocale returns NULL the LANG specified is invalid and "not supported".
on OSX (10.9.3) and PHP (5.4.24) you need to use full local name including codeset
i.e. for German need to use de_DE.UTF-8 even setlocale returns success when used without .UTF-8 the lookups will not work.
For me it is sufficient to call setlocale() with a string like "nl_BE" as the second parameter, to make gettext() work. Just plain "nl" was not enough.
Ditto when using an environment variable like LANG: "en", "fr", "nl", "de" are not enough: I have to specify the country, too.
Take care when extracting the strings from the source files : if your source files are not encoded in ascii, then xgettext must be used with the --from-code option, and the generated .po file is *always* UTF-8 (even if you used a different --from-code charset).
The usage of gettext will not work later on strings which include non ascii caracters. For make it working, you have to translate the .po file to your proper charset with msgconv.
Example :
my source files are encoded in iso-8859-1
$ xgettext --from-code=iso-8859-1 -n *.php -o myapp.po
==> myapp.po is in UTF-8 (and generated .mo files will not work with gettext).
I have to convert it to iso-8859-1 before translating :
$ msgconv --to-code=iso-8859-1 myapp.po -o myapp.po
...and now translate the file.
There's a good tutorial to the GetText tools used with PHP at http://zez.org/article/articleview/42
The only modification I needed to do was to use the correct ISO-language/country-codes (don't know the ISO number) and call setlocale.
putenv("LC_ALL=da_DK"); // For danish/Denmark
setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
// ./locale/da/LC_MESSAGES holds the helloworld.mo file
bindtextdomain("helloworld", "./locale");
print(gettext("Hello world!"));
I had a lot of trouble getting this to work on Red Hat (Yellow Dog) Linux though.
gettext returns the headers from .mo files
if the message parameter is set to empty.
So if you are for example using Smarty blocks, make sure that the values given checks if the text has content or else your text will have a bunch of headers printing.
If you are putting a variable to the gettext, like so:
you are better of making another function like this:
function __($text){
if(empty($text)) return "";
else gettext($text);
If you 're experiencing problems like gettext() is not working and you're getting translated text only occassionaly use: unset LANG before starting apache.
Next thing is that you have to restart apache after you 've changed .mo files because they're treated something like shared libraries.
I've only tested this with Linux (Sourcemage Linux distro, Mandrake) but it might be true for others as well.
Default behavior is name .mo file equally in every language version:
--- en_US
--------- lang.mo
--- sk_SK
--------- lang.mo
I think, better form is:
--- en_US
--------- en.mo
--- sk_SK
--------- sk.mo
Then the following code works very well (surprisingly on win32 too), and you don't need restart apache and do other confusing things:
$gettext_domain = 'sk'; // change by language
setlocale(LC_ALL, 'sk_SK.UTF-8'); // change by language, directory name sk_SK, not sk_SK.UTF-8
bindtextdomain($gettext_domain, "lang");
bind_textdomain_codeset($gettext_domain, 'UTF-8');
Have nice day :-)
If like me, you are stuck with making a lot of code localizable, you have to go through all your php files and wrap all srings in _("string"). Here's an elisp function which can help you out.
This function enables you to highlight some text in an emacs buffer and make it a localizable string using the keyboard shortcut C-l (Ctrl and l). If the first character highlighted is " or ', then it assumes the text is in php-context and changes it to: _(HIGHLIGHTED_TEXT). Otherwise it assumes the text is in html-context and changes it to <?=_('HIGHLIGHTED_TEXT')?>
The shortcut C-k can be used for translating parts of php strings which contain html tabs. We dont want to translate the entire string including the tabs, so we highlight just the substring that needs to be translated and use C-k.
To use it, do either of:
Copy and paste the following code into your .emacs file. This would permanently associate the keyboard shortcut C-l with this function.
Save the code in a new file ending with the .el extension. Evaluate it using M-x eval-buffer. This makes the C-l keyboard shortcut only last for the current Emacs session.
;author: Vinay Kuruvila March 01 2006
;updated to handle php strings containing html tabs
;makes the text starting at left and ending at right in the
;current buffer a localizable string, assuming that the
;string is within php context
(defun make-localizable-string-in-php-context(left right)
(goto-char left)
(insert "_(")
(goto-char (+ right 2))
(insert ")")
;makes the text starting at left and ending at right in the
;current buffer a localizable string, assuming that the
;string is within html context
(defun make-localizable-string-in-html-context(left right)
(goto-char left)
(insert "<?= _('")
(goto-char (+ right 7))
(insert "')?>")
;makes the highlighted text a localizable string
;uses php-context localization if the first char highlighted
;is " or '
;otherwise uses html-context localization
(defun make-localizable-string()
;find the positions of the left and right ends of
;the highlighted text
(if (> (point) (mark))
(setq right (point))
(setq left (mark))
(setq right (mark))
(setq left (point))
;determine php-context or html-context and dispatch
(if (or (char-equal (char-after left) ?\") (char-equal (char-after left) ?'))
(make-localizable-string-in-php-context left right)
(make-localizable-string-in-html-context left right)
;to handle php strings which contain html tabs
;we dont want to translate the html tabs
(defun make-localizable-string-within-php-string ()
;find the positions of the left and right ends of
;the highlighted text
(if (> (point) (mark))
(setq right (point))
(setq left (mark))
(setq right (mark))
(setq left (point))
(goto-char left)
(insert "\". _(\"")
(goto-char (+ right 6))
(insert "\").\"")
;assigns a keyboard shortcut
(global-set-key "\C-l" 'make-localizable-string)
(global-set-key "\C-k" 'make-localizable-string-within-php-string)
This function is not able to handle null values. It can return the complete translation file if you enter null as argument.
I had a problem like "adino at adino dot sk" said, so I did the unsetting of LANG ($ unset LANG), but it was not sufficient, I had to unset the environment variable LANGUAGE too.
I tried to do this using "sudo", but it didn't works, so I had to change to root using "su"
If you need to know, I use Musix (a sub-distro of Devia).
I hope this will help you, Seeya! ^__^'


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An Optimality Theoretic Analysis of Broken Plurals in Muscat Arabic
Muscat Arabic exhibits unique prosodic tendencies in the formation of broken plurals which, as a result of their uniqueness, have not received adequate theoretical exploration in the literature of broken plural formation. Building on McCarthy's pre-Optimality Theoretic claims on broken plurals in Classical Arabic, I argue that an 'affixed mora [μ]' attached at a certain locus in the broken plurals enforces two expansions of the iambic foot to be realized in two distinct shapes of broken plurals in Muscat Arabic. I further show that the affixed [μ] associates in a position that does not disrupt the prosodic and syllabic canons of the language as a whole. This is manifested in a ranked set of constraints couched in a unified Optimality Theoretic analysis which reflects the grammar of Muscat Arabic.
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Manadonese loves spicy & hot food, if you think this dish is less spicy, try add more chillies from what have been written below.
The crispiness of the fish depends on your frying technique. Some people love eating it with crispy taste but some doesn't, so I leave it all to you...
- 3 mackerel
- 2 tomatoes
- 6 tbsp oil
- 1 tsp palmsugar (gula jawa)
- 2 tbsp rice vinager
- 3 salam leaves
- 2 jeruk purut / kaffir lime leaves
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 4 cm jahe (ginger)
- 3 shallots
- 3 cm laos (galangal)
- 3 cloves garlic
- 2 red lomboks (large chilies)
How to:
- Pound or grind the ingredients for the seasoning into a paste.
- Cut the tomatoes in thin slices.
- Heat in a wok the oil and fry the fish brown and done.
- Put the fish on a plate.
- Add the bumbu (seasoning) and fry it for 3 minutes.
- Then add the salam, the jeruk purut, the tomatoes, the palmsugar, the salt and the rice vinager and let it simmer slowly for 5 minutes.
- Pour the sauce over the fish and serve.
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Ramtale has been putting in long days at the Sulawesi Animal Rescue Centre in Indonesia. Sulawesi is the closest Indonesian island to the Philippines and has been exploited as a consolidation point for illegal shipments of wildlife and wildlife products from Java, Sumatra, and Borneo across to the Philippines and onward to China, Taiwan and Japan.
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Orangutans, sun bears, gibbons, tarsiers, lorises and pangolins are some of the most endangered mammals smuggled out of the country; cockatoos, hornbills, birds of paradise as well as turtles and other reptiles are also shipped out. Since opening in 1990 the centre has intercepted more than 2,000 animals, working with 110 different species. The demands of these animals - everything from feeding to developing "enrichment programs" - keep the volunteers busy.
"In the morning we would search for grass, leaves and berries for the animals. This was called 'browsing,'" explains Ramtale. "I also took part in creating 'enrichments' for the animals. This is a way of feeding the animals so they have to work a bit to access the food. For example, I drilled holes along a stick of bamboo then inserted birdseeds into the holes to make it a bit more challenging for them to eat."
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Glen presents a fast paced walk up and walk down routine that again will utilize a large portion of the fretboard.
Taught by Glen Drover in Glen Drover Artist Series seriesLength: 4:10Difficulty: 4.0 of 5
Former guitarist for Megadeth and Testament, thrasher Glen Drover presents his Artist Series and will touch on subjects such as speed, rhythm, and solo creation.
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Glen takes a quick look at a diminished solo idea that utilizes 3 notes per string as well as the legato technique.Length: 3:25 Difficulty: 4.5 Members Only
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Staying within the legato technique, Glen utilizes another backing track to help demonstrate another unique solo idea in the key of B minor.Length: 4:50 Difficulty: 4.0 Members Only
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It's all about feeling the music, and Glen demonstrates ideas he may come up with when put on the spot for a solo. These ideas will influence your melodic and creative thinking.Length: 4:45 Difficulty: 4.0 Members Only
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Glen utilizes a new backing track to help demonstrate another legato style melodic solo.Length: 3:11 Difficulty: 4.0 Members Only
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Glen utilizes a heavy backing track to demonstrate a great 3 note per string lick that will really help with increasing speed between your fretting and picking hands.Length: 4:50 Difficulty: 4.0 Members Only
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Utilizing another fast and heavy backing track, Glen demonstrates a 2 note per string lick that is yet another great exercise for improving your right and left hand communication.Length: 3:51 Difficulty: 4.5 Members Only
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How about another quick little exercise offering a multi-octave ascending run followed by an up tempo phrase ending?Length: 2:52 Difficulty: 4.0 Members Only
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This exercise is meant to help produce speed with the picking hand. Start this exercise off slow. Over time, the right hand will get faster and faster with practice.Length: 2:35 Difficulty: 4.0 Members Only
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Glen demonstrates a great walk down exercise that will help synchronize both left and right hands together.Length: 3:47 Difficulty: 4.0 Members Only
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Combining a pentatonic riff with a harmonic minor riff, Glen introduces an exercise that utilizes a large portion of the guitar neck.Length: 3:51 Difficulty: 4.0 Members Only
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Glen presents a mysterious walk down exercise and explains how it can be used to improve both alternate picking and legato movement.Length: 4:34 Difficulty: 4.0 Members Only
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Glen will present an exercise that is a walk up utilizing nearly the entire fret board. There is a lot of movement in this exercise, so make sure those hands are stretched.Length: 4:50 Difficulty: 4.0 Members Only
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Glen presents a fast paced walk up and walk down routine that again will utilize a large portion of the fretboard.Length: 4:10 Difficulty: 4.0 Members Only
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Utilizing all 4 fingers on the fret hand, Glen demonstrates a great exercise that can be used to help strengthen those fingers and improve communication with the picking hand.Length: 5:20 Difficulty: 4.0 Members Only
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Heavy metal music offers plenty of opportunity for the guitarist and drummer to work together to create a certain emotion or effect. Glen demonstrates a piece that matches the double kick pattern provided...Length: 6:48 Difficulty: 4.0 Members Only
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Heavy metal music pulls influences from all different genres of music. Watch as Glen demonstrate a great heavy metal / blues influenced exercise that can help broaden the creative aspect of understanding...Length: 5:12 Difficulty: 4.0 Members Only
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Even though solo and lead techniques rule the rock and heavy metal world, rhythm parts are the backbone for creating a full supportive sound. Glen demonstrates his first rhythm example.Length: 4:42 Difficulty: 4.0 Members Only
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Glen presents his second exercise within his supportive rhythm segment. This idea uses lead techniques to help demonstrate how supportive rhythms function within a metal solo.Length: 5:04 Difficulty: 4.0 Members Only
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Glen demonstrates a unique tuning that allows certain special notes to ring out, creating a mysterious alternate picking exercise.Length: 7:59 Difficulty: 4.0 Members Only
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Utilizing all the techniques taught so far, Glen now presents a simple rhythm exercise and a solo to accompany it.Length: 7:39 Difficulty: 4.0 Members Only
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Glen presents another supportive rhythm exercise followed by a nice solo idea that can be overlaid to create a full heavy metal sound. Enjoy!Length: 11:27 Difficulty: 4.0 Members Only
Lesson 23
It's time to change up the tuning. Glen uses drop C tuning and demonstrates a metal riff that helps with down-picking technique.Length: 9:38 Difficulty: 4.0 Members Only
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Here's another drop C riff. This time, Glen demonstrates fretting hand techniques that can help with speed.Length: 8:56 Difficulty: 4.0 Members Only
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Lesson 25 from Glen presents a detailed exercise that firmly builds up fret hand dexterity for both speed and accuracy.Length: 10:13 Difficulty: 4.0 FREE
Lesson 26
Glen presents an inspiring solo packed full of techniques. This solo is very melodic and allows the player to put a lot of emotion into it.Length: 16:01 Difficulty: 4.0 Members Only
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Welcome to a lesson that offers a very chunky rhythm pattern with palm muting!Length: 9:26 Difficulty: 4.0 Members Only
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The Best Diet for Weight Loss and Disease Prevention
The most effective diet for weight loss may also be the healthiest.
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Japan has the number one life expectancy of any nation while the US falls around 19th. A study recently suggested that eating a single serving of berries every day could add an extra year to our lifespan. The available evidence also suggests that eating nuts (specifically walnuts) and beans may extend our life (see also here). A plant based diet overall is thought to be capable of reversing heart disease and, thus, extending the lifespan (see also here, here, here, here) by almost 14 years. A study found that those eating one serving of fruits and vegetables a day died 19 months sooner than those eating five servings a day, a direct correlation between plant-based diets and lifespan. Just reducing the amount of meat one eats can increase lifespan. However, British vegetarians do not appear to live longer than British meat eaters (possibly due to the fact that they are less likely to supplement their diet with vitamin B12). Coffee has been associated with decreased all-cause mortality. Besides diet, sleeping 7 hours a night may maximize longevity. Severe caloric restriction has been found to extend the lives of animals in laboratories, and lowers our target of rapamycin, or TOR, which is a major determinant of aging. This caloric restriction can easily be met by reducing animal protein and increasing plant consumption. Meditation and stress management, along with a whole-food, plant-based, may slow the aging of our DNA. On the other hand, there are a few vitamin supplements that may increase all-cause mortality, or shorten the lifespan (see also here). Vitamin C and multivitamins don't appear to offer net benefit.. Iron pills have also been linked to a shorter lifespan. Vitamin D, however, actually appears to make us live longer (see also here, here, here, here, here). Meat intake may increase total mortality according to the massive NIH-AARP study (the largest forward looking study of diet and health in history). Similarly, the Harvard Health Professionals Follow-up Study and the Harvard Nurses' Health Study linked red meat consumption to living a significantly shorter life—increased cancer mortality, increased heart disease mortality, and increased overall mortality. Not surprisingly then, people on animal-based, low carb diets have been found to live significantly shorter lives (increased risk of all cause mortality). A shorter life span has also been associated with untreated celiac disease, early puberty, consumption of processed meats and fish, kombucha tea, and eating just one egg a day has been found to shorten our lifespan (see also here, here, here). Dark fish consumption (such as salmon) has been linked with atrial fibrillation (a heartbeat arrhythmia, which can significantly shorten the lifespan). Moderate alcohol consumption does not appear to affect the lifespan of healthy people either positively or negatively.
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The most effective diet for weight loss may also be the healthiest.
Natural approaches to lowering high blood pressure can work better than drugs because you're treating the underlying cause, and can end up having only good side effects.
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The same meal eaten at the wrong time of day can double blood sugars.
Given the power of chronotherapy—how the same dose of the same drugs taken at a different time of day can have such different effects—it's no surprise that chronoprevention approaches, like meal timing, can also make a difference.
Why we may want to strive not to exceed the recommended intake of protein.
Calories eaten in the morning count less and are healthier than calories eaten in the evening.
The effects of eating only 5 days a week or a fasting-mimicking diet 5 days a month.
Alternate-day modified fasting is put to the test for lifespan extension.
Peeled apples are pitted head-to-head against unpeeled apples and spinach in a test of artery function.
Though a bane for dieters, a slower metabolism may actually be a good thing.
Ketogenic diets found to undermine exercise efforts and lead to muscle shrinkage and bone loss.


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Oct 9 (Reuters) - Suspensions for two players connected to the New Orleans Saints' bounty scandal were reduced by the National Football League (NFL) on Tuesday while two others, including Jonathan Vilma's season-long ban, were upheld.
Linebacker Scott Fujita's three-game ban was dropped to one game and free agent defensive end Anthony Hargrove's eight-game suspension was cut to seven games, the NFL said in a statement.
But Saints linebacker Vilma remained suspended for the entire 2012 NFL season while team mate Will Smith did not get his four-game ban reduced.
The four were punished in May when the NFL identified them as having leadership roles in a program where players were given cash rewards for knocking opponents out of games from 2009-2011.
But the bans were overturned by an arbitration panel ahead of the season-opening weekend last month in a decision that allowed NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to put the suspensions back in place if he could prove there was an intent to injure.
Goodell decided to adjust certain aspects of the bans after recent meetings with each of the players, which marked the first time those players had agreed to speak directly to the NFL to give their side of the story, according to the league.
"In my recent meetings with the players and their counsel, the players addressed the allegations and had an opportunity to tell their side of the story," said Goodell.
"In those meetings, the players confirmed many of the key facts disclosed in our investigation, most particularly that the program offered cash rewards for 'cart-offs,' that players were encouraged to 'crank up the John Deere tractor' and have their opponents carted off the field, and that rewards were offered and paid for plays that resulted in opposing players having to leave the field of play."
Goodell said he could not determine that Fujita, who is now with the Cleveland Browns, directly contributed to the bounty pool but added that there was no question he was aware of it and its elements.
Hargrove will be credited for five games missed while a free agent, and will serve a two-game suspension once he is signed by a club, according to the NFL.
The NFL Players Association (NFLPA) said it will review the league's decision thoroughly and review all options.
"For more than six months, the NFL has ignored the facts, abused the process outlined in our collective bargaining agreement and failed to produce evidence that the players intended to injure anyone, ever," the NFL Players Association said in a statement.
"The only evidence that exists is the league's gross violation of fair due process, transparency and impartiality during this process. Truth and fairness have been the casualties of the league's refusal to admit that it might have made a mistake." (Reporting by Steve Keating in Toronto; Editing by Frank Pingue)


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dinner with friends
We had some friends over the other night for dinner, it was our good friend Kirsten's birthday. I made an egg frittata, roasted cauliflower, lots of fresh fruit & blueberry lemonade. We put some of those grocers from the last post to good use and tried out the Cherimoya, she declared it her new favorite.
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I love those daffodils! And the vase is beautiful!ReplyDelete
i've been wanting to try out a cherimoya but haven't been able to find a fresh one yet. will have to once i get my hands on one~ ;)ReplyDelete
Lovely...as always gorgeous!ReplyDelete
what is cherimoya? looks intriguing!ReplyDelete
goreous daffs...hope you had funReplyDelete
Beautiful photos! Sounds like a great evening/dinner!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 26, 2012
The actual spelling is chirimoya, had a lot of it when I lived in Peru, it's amazingly good!ReplyDelete
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Monday, October 8, 2007
'Tis the Season for Promotional Brochures from Law Schools...
MOVING TO FRONT from August 22, 2006: it seems to me that more schools are, happily, following this advice, judging from what's been arriving in my mailbox. There are a few schools still wasting money by sending out alumni magazines, but by and large I've found this year's batch of mailings to be more informative and succint than in prior years. I'm curious what others think. (Comments are open; no anonymous postings. Post only once.)
MOVING TO FRONT from September 2005, since this is once again timely
...since everyone wants to get their news out before the new U.S. News surveys get sent out. Yesterday, I received promotional materials from six different law schools! I read, or at least skim, many of these publications, since it's usually interesting to learn about new faculty hires and recent publications. I know I'm also the exception, as I watch many of my colleagues dump these items straight in the trash. Law schools are now spending hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of dollars on these promotional efforts, but I do wish schools would follow a few simple rules when mailing materials to other academics:
(1) Don't send your brochure in an envelope. Bear in mind that most faculty throw these publications out, right along with the latest junk mail from Aspen, West, the ABA, the AALS, and so on. The easier it is to open, the more folks will read it. If there' s no envelope--if a school sends, instead, a postcard or brochure-style mailing--then even those who throw it out may at least learn something as they glance at the cover as it sails into the circular filing cabinet.
(2) Don't include information on every member of your faculty. Not all faculty are created equal from the standpoint of academic achievement, reputation of your school, or interest to professional peers--just as not all faculty are created equal from the standpoint of teaching ability, institutional service, or interpersonal skills. If you're sending out a brochure to impress your academic colleagues, send out a brochure that features the faculty who impress your academic colleagues. If a school can't muster the institutional courage to discriminate, don't waste the money sending out a brochure at all. Remember: if Harvard sent out a brochure profiling every member of its faculty, you'd be shocked at some of the bozos and deadwood!
(3) Don't send lists of publications--lists are mind-numbingly boring, and lists of publications make for bad reading, i.e., almost no one reads them. Pick the faculty you want to feature, and include some narrative information, with perhaps a short list of representative publications.
(4) Don't include long letters from Deans--no other academic cares what lies and puffery your Dean wants to tell. A Dean's letter longer than 200 words is too long.
(5) Don't send the magazine you send to alumni to other academics--what alumni find interesting and edifying, your professional peers largely view as boring and ridiculous. Remember, too, that the ridiculous puffery schools can pass off on their alumni will simply embarrass a school in front of those who actually know something. NYU's alumni magazine during the Sexton years became the laughing-stock of the legal academy for exactly these reasons; their reputational scores in U.S. News even declined during this time despite tangible improvements in faculty quality!
(6) Do keep it short and sweet. I like the new USD brochure: it consists of four pages (including front and back covers), and on page two I learn whom they have hired, and the rest is gravy (I only skimmed the rest). The new Penn State/Dickinson brochure had good information on new faculty hires and also observed rule #2 quite effectively...but it was a bit long, with lots of page-turning required, and, most unfortunately, they violated rule #1, which no doubt means many law faculty never registered some of the interesting lateral hires there.
Bear in mind, of course, that Professor Stake's research shows fairly clearly that the biggest influence on the U.S. News academic reputation surveys is not the quality of your faculty or student body (why should that matter to academic reputation, after all?), it's your most recent overall ranking in U.S. News! (We actually stopped sending out our annual "Recent Faculty News" brochures from the late 1990s (on which so many of the current mailings are obviously modelled) when it became clear that adding to our faculty Bernard Black from Stanford, Ronald Mann from Michigan, and Larry Sager from NYU (among many others), together with a dramatic increase in student credentials, was correlated with a decline in our academic reputation according to U.S. News! We now produce shorter promotional items at irregular intervals.) So if you're going to produce such materials, don't do it with an expectation that it will affect U.S. News, except maybe over the very long-term. Do it because scholarly and professional accomplishments deserve recognition from your professional peers. And perhaps, too, it will have some effect on more reliable measures of academic quality!
UPDATE: A law school Dean writes:
In your critique of law school mass mailings I wish you had mentioned deans who send along a reprint of an article published by a member of his or her faculty that appears in a so-so journal, accompanied by a fulsome letter essentially arguing that the work shifts the paradigm. If that is the best a dean can do then the inference actually raised is that he or she has a faculty populated by mediocre scholars.
I've opened comments for other feedback on what does and doesn't work in these promotional brochures sent to law faculty.
The process of compiling a faculty report can serve a valuable function internally even if the report does little to increase the school's U.S. News survey rankings. I was surprised how much I learned about my colleagues while compiling our report.
Posted by: Lyrissa Lidsky | Sep 29, 2005 1:10:07 PM
Another year, and one can only wonder whether that pompous, anonymous "law school Dean" has yet learned the meaning of the word "fulsome." Talk about raising inferences of mediocrity.
Posted by: David Smith | Aug 22, 2006 9:16:23 AM
How about the word "robust." It seems the word became more popular with the "election" of GWB. Before that I mostly would see it in ads discussing the wonderful qualities of cereal or what a particular cereal would add to the quality of your breakfast.
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I am currently trying to do an application that does the upload as well the download of files from a http server that needs authentication.
The thing is i am not very sure where to begin and i am open to any suggestions.
Basically what i am trying to upload is a html file onto the http server and also have the capability to download back that file back to my computer if i need it. The server i am using does not support ftp so using the sun's ftp classes are out but i am not sure if there are classes that exist for the uploading and downloading of files from a http server.
I am not using servlets but trying to upload or download a simple html file to http server from a java application
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that was funny after the girl in white tripped her she tried to look tough by standing over the girl in blue and then she fell....haha lookin like a fool. I always enjoy a chick fight tho someone shoulda called the po-po
"The Knicks are back" - Amare
I saw that fight, yesterday on youtube. It was so funny. One of the players from the Detroit Shock got hurt, though (Cheryl Ford).
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Damn player-centric usernames straight to hell.
nah she was a "peacemaker"
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I was thinking about that 1860 census listing mentioned in my last post for Tombstone Tuesday and started thinking about: Who are those people who she is living with in Aurora, Kane County IL?
I tried searching for Justin DODGE. Was that a grandson of hers? Was Juliet a granddaughter? Afterall they came from Vermont and when she was married to Elijah NYE until he died in 1852, they were living in Montpelier VT.
I didn't have much luck on the birth, marriage, death records for Justin DODGE. So I decided to try the family trees. Maybe some hints can be found there. I found a Justus DODGE, not a Justin DODGE who was married to Juliette NYE! NYE -- that's Susannah NYE's second husband's last name. Could this be a daughter of Elijah NYE? According to the Ancestry.com tree of Travis Bennett, her parents were Ellis NYE and Susannah FRENCH. There children were: Henry Dodge, Mattie Dodge, and Willie Dodge. The census has Henry J and Martha. Willie hadn't been born yet (1864).
Time to check my NYE family history book: Benjamin NYE of Sandwich, Massachusetts, and His Ancestors and Descendants by George Hyatt Nye and Frank E Best, 1907.
I found Juliette NYE, daughter of Ellis NYE from Montpelier VT. Montpelier VT is where Susannah and Elijah NYE lived on his farm until he died in 1852.
According to Nye and Best, she married Justus DODGE and had three children: Henry, Mattie and Julia.
Sounds like the same DODGE family. Now, was Juliette related to Elijah? Two NYE families in Montpelier around the same time?
According to Nye and Best:
Juliet - Ellis - Iram - Benjamin - Benjamin - John - Benjamin
Elijah - Melatiah - Ebenezer - Caleb - Benjamin
So Juliet and Elijah were third cousins twice removed.
Susannah was living with her second husband's third cousin twice removed!
Now, if only there was someone named who she lived with between 1810 and 1850 censuses we might have something to go on. But, she is in the 1850 census and her husband (and unnamed family) are in the 1820 census ... just not between.
For years I've tried to climb numerous "brick walls" as I've worked on my family history -- many of my challenges are my women ancestors. I've met many wonderful, helpful genealogists, town clerks, historians, and societies along the way. Some of the names I'm working on: DAKIN, WORTHINGTON, SEARING, RICHARDSON, DeLOSS/LOSS, COPELAND, HARVEY, WRIGHT, EVANS, HELSTEN, SMITH (Conn.), HEARTY, ROBBERT, BOGART, NYE, BLODGETT & COBB.
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Another clue on the Whereabouts of Susannah Dole Harvey NYE
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Quick, name three e-readers! Can I guess which ones popped into your head? Let's say the Kindle, the Nook, and the iPad. It's very possible one of the Sony models was also included. It's now a crowded market with many high-quality pieces of hardware being sold at relatively low prices. And then you have lesser-known readers like the Literati, which isn't as expensive as the iPad but does cost more than the Kindle, and it comes with a color screen.
A dedicated e-reader, which the Literati is, needs to offer a problem-free reading experience, and the Literati does not deliver. The ideas and market placement of the device are interesting, but if it's frustrating to actually use, who cares about the niceties?
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Sharper Image knows that e-readers are officially a Big Deal, and the idea of launching an inexpensive entry into the market with a color screen had to be attractive. The $159 Literati features a long, thin screen in full color, and it looks nice, but that positive first impression is marred by the fact it takes close to a minute to load upon first startup. The 800x480 resolution actually makes sense in this context, as it resembles a book page, and while the device is heavier than the Kindle, I found it comfortable to hold in one hand while reading.
Books can be purchased from the popular Kobo store, and during my cursory testing I didn't find any books I wanted to buy that weren't offered. The lack of a touchscreen is problematic here, especially since the built-in keyboard is tiny and hard to use properly. By focusing on it and typing with only the tips of my fingers I was able to use it effectively, but it was way too time-consuming. The teeny-tiny directional pad in the lower-right hand corner was even worse, with a middle button to make your selection that's all but impossible not to hit while going through menus.
Turning pages is done with a left or right touch-sensitive spot on either side of the screen, but this only worked accurately about 85 percent of the time. Reading is at its most enjoyable when you're able to completely lose yourself in the experience. In this case, every time I started to feel myself slip away from the physical reality of holding a gadget and toward the zen state of immersive reading, I'd be brought back to Earth by the inability to turn a page on the first (and sometimes even second) try.
The last issue is the battery life. The Literati will go for about five hours on a single charge, and that just isn't enough for something that's supposed to replace a book. My iPad gets eight hours or more, even when using WiFi and playing music while I read. The battery life of the Kindle is legendary; you barely have to think about it.
There's also nothing else to be done on the Literati: you can read books, view documents, or buy books. That's it. While the Kindle is branching out in other directions with its software and the iPad is a full tablet computer, this feels a little too reductionist.
One last thing, which is nit-picky but telling: the unboxing experience is terrible. The hardware comes sealed in thick plastic, and it required some serious cutting to free. Having opened both an iPad and a Kindle 3 recently, it's amazing how this can color your first impression of a device and its quality.
There are good ideas here. The size and shape of the Literati are clever and attractive. The color screen is a selling point for people who want to see all the illustrations in things like cook books. The price is not high. Unfortunately, the battery life is too short, the interface is frustrating, and the experience is way more sluggish than it needs to be.
Have you ever tried to do actual computing on a netbook? That's the feel of the literati; hardware trying desperately to keep up with the tasks being assigned it. The hardware only has to do one thing really well—allow you to buy and read a book—and it fails at that.


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By Shannon Carlin; interview by Jillian Mapes
"I am woman, hear me roar."
It's the simple phrase that Helen Reddy sang in 1971, encouraging women all over America to burn their bras as part of the liberation movement. And 42 years later, the same words inspired Katy Perry to write her own empowerment theme, "Roar."
In an interview with Radio.com, Perry's co-writer on the track, Bonnie McKee, said writing "Roar" was a turning point for Perry, who at the time was still coping with her 2011 divorce from Russell Brand.
"She was kind of coming out of sort of a dark place when she was setting up Prism," McKee said. "She was talking about wanting to explore her darker side."
Related: Hear Me Roår: Inside Katy Perry's 'Prism' Sessions in Stockholm
McKee, who previously worked with Perry on Teenage Dream hits "California Girls," "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" its title track, was willing to go to the dark side with her longtime pal. McKee's skill as a songwriter lies in the fact that whatever artists she's working with, whether it's Ke$ha or Britney Spears or Kelly Clarkson, her goal is to make the song fit said performer's personality.
"I have my songwriters' hat on," McKee said in regards to when she works with other artists. "I'm asking them what they're going through, what they want to talk about, who they want to be."
To help Perry get comfortable, the two headed back to the singer's hometown of Santa Barbara, California to work on the album. As McKee explained, the song ended up being a cathartic experience for Perry. "Prism went from being a dark album, to being an empowering album full of light," she said.
McKee says it was lead single "Roar," now nominated for Song of the Year at this year's GRAMMYs, that allowed Perry to address her pain by focusing on her own power. With lines like "I let you push me past the breaking point/I stood for nothing, so I fell for everything" and "I went from zero to my own hero," Perry was able to show how much she had grown up since the candy-coated pop juggernaut that was her 2010 album.
"['Roar'] felt very empowering from the beginning," McKee explained. "It was all about getting the right words together so it would have this visual hook."
That visual hook, a signature of McKee's writing style, included a nod to Reddy's "I Am Woman" ("the ultimate feminist anthem," McKee notes) and Rocky theme "Eye of the Tiger."
Bonnie McKee and Katy Perry on the red carpet (Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)
After writing "Roar," Perry decided to scrap her previous plans of going goth, telling MTV three months before the album's October 18th release, "There's not really any darkness on the record. There's definitely some textures and colors but I think I was saying that when I was going through a different phase, but I really let that light in."
The song itself would go on to be Perry's eighth No. 1 hit and her fastest-selling single to date, with with more than 557,000 digital downloads in its first week.
See if Perry and McKee can take home the prize for Song of the Year at the 56th Annual GRAMMY Awards, airing Sunday, January 26 at 8 p.m. EST on CBS.


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From NBC's Domenico Montanaro
Evangelical preacher Pat Robertson is at it again. On his Christian Broadcasting Network, he blamed the earthquake in Haiti on the country's "pact to the Devil" for wanting its freedom from French colonial rule.
Imagine if he had said this in October of last year:
You know, Christie, something happened a long time ago in Haiti. And the people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French. You know, Napoleon the third or whatever, and they got together and swore a pact to the Devil. They said, 'We will serve you if you get us free from the French. True story. And so, the Devil said, Ok, it's a deal. And they kicked the French out. You know, the Haitians revolted and got themselves free. But ever since they have been cursed by one thing after another -- desperately poor. That island of Hispaniola is one island. It's cut down the middle. On the one side is Haiti on the other is the Dominican Republic. The Dominican Republic is prosperous, healthy, full of resorts, etc. Haiti is in desperate poverty. Same island. They need to have, and we need to pray for them, a great turning to God, that out of this tragedy, I'm optimistic something good may come, but right now we're helping the suffering people -- and the suffering is unimaginable.
(Hat tip: Salon. Here's the video.)
Rememeber that about Hurricane Katrina, Robertson said the Bible says, "the land will vomit you out" in blaming Katrina on U.S. support for abortion rights (video):
You know, it's just amazing, though, that people say the litmus test for Roberts is whether or not he supports the wholesale slaughter of unborn children. We have killed over 40 million unborn babies in America. I was reading, yesterday, a book that was very interesting about what God has to say in the Old Testament about those who shed innocent blood. And he used the term that those who do this, "the land will vomit you out." That -- you look at your -- you look at the book of Leviticus and see what it says there. And this author of this said, "well 'vomit out' means you are not able to defend yourself." But have we found we are unable somehow to defend ourselves against some of the attacks that are coming against us, either by terrorists or now by natural disaster? Could they be connected in some way? And he goes down the list of the things that God says will cause a nation to lose its possession, and to be vomited out. And the amazing thing is, a judge has now got to say, "I will support the wholesale slaughter of innocent children" in order to get confirmed to the bench. And I am sure Judge Roberts is not going to say any such thing. But nevertheless, that's the litmus test that's being put on, the very thing that could endanger our nation. And it's very interesting. Read the bible, read Leviticus, see what it says there.
And after 9/11, he said he'd predicted a terrorist attack on the U.S. after a prayer meeting. (Video.)